Dive master
Adams Adventures
On today's Adventure we went shark tagging with Dr. Derrek
Burkeholder and the Nova Southeastern University, Guy Harvey Research Institute
crew, along with the Pompano Beach Diver Center we went Shark Tagging in order
to collect data to find out information like where the sharks are migrating to
and their patterns as well as using genetics to catalog the information and
create a database to help protect the species the best that we can.
Today on the boat we met our Dive master Adam and I got a chance
to talk with him about different things based on his life and his experiences.
A dive master’s role is to organizing leading recreational dives, in a
professional capacity through a qualification. Adams life is one that I find
very interesting and cool, he started recreational diving at the age of 10 by
flying down to Aruba to get his certification so that he could get in the water
as soon as possible, but as a child he it was something he couldn’t wait to do
because he actually grew up in the Florida Keys. Adam also told me that growing
up in the Keys was such a different experience from anywhere else because him
and his friends would always be doing whatever they could to get in the water. It
was either fishing, diving, spear fishing, or trying to figure out whose
parents boat they could take out for the day instead of going to school.
Besides being
a dive master, Adam is also a technical diver, rescue diver, and certified to
dive in more than 200 feet of water. He mentioned that over the past year he
has learned more about diving then he knew was even possible. Adam followed
that by saying that he is looking to further his diving education by getting
certified to cave dive because it is one of the only things he is not certified
for and it is one of the only things that really scares him when it comes to
diving.
I asked
Adam where he has been diving besides Florida, and he said that he has been diving
all over the world but he discovered that his favorite place to go diving is in
Western Canada British Columbia area because it is so different from what he is
used to and seeing the salmon (Salmo
salar) and the kelp (Laminariales)
forests make it a whole different world from what he is used to being born and
raised in Florida and he would 100% go back again.
Finally, I felt
it was appropriate to ask Adam his favorite species of shark being that we were
on a shark tagging trip and he’s been around so many different species. He said
that Tiger Sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier). When
I asked why, Adam said that they are just so beautiful and powerful and when
they are young the patterns and coloration of the shark are just so perfect
that nothing can beat them. They are an amazing powerful species that species
that are just incredible. Adam also told me about how you can swim a tiger
shark off the boat which is where you hold on to the tail of the shark as it
swims away and they get curios and check you and then they just keep swimming and
you can just feel their power and strength and take in how great the species
actually is.
Adam was such a cool and chill dude! I really enjoyed talking to him. I'm glad you interviewed him, it's interesting to see how much he knows how to do when it comes to scuba diving. Interesting blog!!
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